The 10 arena shows commence May 5 in Dublin, Ireland, and run through May 21 in Stockholm, Sweden. The other tour stops are Manchester, London, Paris, Milan, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Oslo.

The tour follows the performing debut of Springsteen with The Seeger Sessions Band at on April 30.

Each night, an all new evening of gospel, folk, and blues will be presented by Springsteen with his 17-member Seeger Sessions Band.

In addition to The Boss on vocals, guitar and harmonica, the European tour dates comprise the following lineup: Sam Bardfeld (violin), Art Baron (tuba), Frank Bruno (guitar), Jeremy Chatzky (upright bass), Larry Eagle (drums), Clark Gayton (trombone), Charles Giordano (accordion, keyboards), Curtis King (vocals), Greg Liszt (banjo), Lisa Lowell (vocals), Eddie Manion (sax), Cindy Mizell (vocals), Curt Ramm (trumpet), Marty Rifkin (pedal steel guitar), Patti Scialfa (vocals), Mark Thompson (vocals) and Soozie Tyrell (violin).

We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions will be released by Columbia Records as a DualDisc or CD/DVD in some territories on April 25 (April 24 in Europe), In addition, the DualDisc package will contain two bonus tracks and a special booklet including a note from Springsteen.

The album features his personal interpretations of thirteen traditional songs, all of them associated with American folk music icon Pete Seeger.